Ciarán Hinds

Ciarán Hinds

Born: February 9, 1953
in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Ciarán Hinds (born February 9, 1953) is an Irish actor. A versatile character actor, he has appeared in feature films such as The Sum of All Fears, Road to Perdition, Munich, There Will Be Blood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Frozen, Silence, Red Sparrow, Justice League, First Man, and Frozen II.

His television roles include Gaius Julius Caesar in the series Rome, DCI James Langton in Above Suspicion, and Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones. As a stage actor Hinds has enjoyed spells with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre in London, and six seasons with Glasgow Citizens' Theatre, and he has continued to work on stage throughout his career.

Movies for Ciarán Hinds...

Cottontail
Title: Cottontail
Character: John
Released: May 9, 2024
Type: Movie
After the death of his wife, Kenzaburo (60s) and his son Toshi (30s) receive an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. Akiko, their wife and mother, asks them to scatter her ashes at the place she loved most as a child – Lake Windermere in England. Surprised by this unexpected request, father and son are initially at loggerheads over their next steps.
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Small Things Like These
Title: Small Things Like These
Released: February 15, 2024
Type: Movie
It is 1985 in the run-up to Christmas in a small town in County Wexford, Ireland. Bill Furlong toils as a coal merchant to support himself, his wife and his five daughters. Early one morning while out delivering coal at the local convent, he makes a discovery that forces him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a town controlled by the Catholic Church.
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The Family Plan
Title: The Family Plan
Character: McCaffrey
Released: December 14, 2023
Type: Movie
Dan Morgan is many things: a devoted husband, a loving father, a celebrated car salesman. He's also a former assassin. And when his past catches up to his present, he's forced to take his unsuspecting family on a road trip unlike any other.
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In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Title: In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Character: Vincent O'Shea
Released: October 6, 2023
Type: Movie
In a remote Irish village, a damaged Finbar is forced to fight for redemption after a lifetime of sins, but what price is he willing to pay? In the land of saints and sinners, some sins can't be buried.
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Title: Treason
Character: Sir Martin Angelis
Released: December 26, 2022
Type: TV
An MI6 deputy's bright future takes a sharp turn after a reunion with a Russian spy forces him to question his entire life.
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Title: The English
Character: Richard M Watts
Released: November 10, 2022
Type: TV
An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, arrives into the new and wild landscape of the American West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.
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The Wonder
Title: The Wonder
Character: Father Thaddeus
Released: November 2, 2022
Type: Movie
Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.
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Title: The Dry
Character: Tom Sheridan
Released: May 5, 2022
Type: TV
In the series, when Shiv Sheridan returns to Dublin after years of partying in London, she is sober and full of good intentions – but being back with her family makes staying on ‘the dry' much harder than she expected. As Shiv tries to navigate this new phase of her life, so must her family and they all have issues they don't want to face.
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Belfast
Title: Belfast
Character: Pop
Released: November 12, 2021
Type: Movie
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.
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Title: Kin
Character: Eamon Cunningham
Released: September 9, 2021
Type: TV
The lives of a Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and the consequences of their choices.
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
Title: Zack Snyder's Justice League
Character: Steppenwolf (voice)
Released: March 18, 2021
Type: Movie
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.
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The Man in the Hat
Title: The Man in the Hat
Character: The Man In The Hat
Released: September 18, 2020
Type: Movie
The Man In The Hat sets off from Marseilles in a small Fiat 500. On the seat beside him is a framed photograph of an unknown woman. Behind him is a 2CV into which is squeezed Five Bald Men. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off? As he travels North through France, he encounters razeteurs, women with stories to tell, bullfights, plenty of delicious food, a damp man, mechanics, nuns, a convention of Chrystallographers and much more, coming face to face with the vivid eccentricities of an old country.
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The Hour
Title: The Hour
Character: Himself
Released: August 19, 2020
Type: Movie
The hour before actors go on stage at the National Theatre in London is a performance in and of itself.
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Frozen II
Title: Frozen II
Character: Pabbie (voice)
Released: November 20, 2019
Type: Movie
Elsa, Anna, Kristoff and Olaf head far into the forest to learn the truth about an ancient mystery of their kingdom.
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Lost Lives
Title: Lost Lives
Released: October 10, 2019
Type: Movie
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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First Man
Title: First Man
Character: Robert R. Gilruth
Released: October 10, 2018
Type: Movie
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
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Grace and Goliath
Title: Grace and Goliath
Character: Surgeon
Released: October 5, 2018
Type: Movie
Hollywood big shot Josh Jenkins sweeps into Belfast to make a movie, but before long his world crashes and he loses everything. Hotel cleaner Lily invites him to stay with her crazy family and gradually the people of this 'strange' city touch his heart forever.
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Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Title: Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Character: Captain Stinger (voice)
Released: August 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Morten, a ten-year-old boy, is shrunk to the size of an insect due to a magical fog gun. Soon, he finds himself on his makeshift model ship sailing through a flooded cafe.
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Elizabeth Harvest
Title: Elizabeth Harvest
Character: Henry
Released: August 10, 2018
Type: Movie
The newly married Elizabeth arrives with her new husband, the scientist Henry, at a magnificent house. He tells her that she can do there anything she pleases, except to enter a certain closed room.
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National Theatre Collection: Translations
Title: National Theatre Collection: Translations
Character: Hugh
Released: July 31, 2018
Type: Movie
Owen, the prodigal son, returns to rural Donegal from Dublin. With him are two British army officers. Their ambition is to create a map of the area, replacing the Gaelic names with English. It is an administrative act with radical consequences.
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Title: The Terror
Character: Sir John Franklin
Released: March 26, 2018
Type: TV
A chilling anthology series featuring stories of people in terrifying situations inspired by true historical events.
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Red Sparrow
Title: Red Sparrow
Character: Alexei Zyuganov
Released: February 28, 2018
Type: Movie
Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.
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Justice League
Title: Justice League
Character: Steppenwolf (voice)
Released: November 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone to face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and the Parademons who are on the hunt for three Mother Boxes on Earth.
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Woman Walks Ahead
Title: Woman Walks Ahead
Character: James McLaughlin
Released: September 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off with an army officer intent on war with Native Americans.
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Axis
Title: Axis
Character: Jim (voice)
Released: April 7, 2017
Type: Movie
On the morning he is set to star in a career changing blockbuster film, an Irish actor trying to live down his rocky past confronts a series of devastating events that threaten his sobriety, his loved ones, and ultimately his life.
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Silence
Title: Silence
Character: Father Valignano
Released: December 22, 2016
Type: Movie
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
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Title: My Mother and Other Strangers
Character: Older Francis
Released: November 13, 2016
Type: TV
Drama series set in 1943 following the Coyne family and their neighbours as they struggle to maintain a normal life after a US Army Air Force base is set up in the middle of their rural parish.
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Bleed for This
Title: Bleed for This
Character: Angelo Pazienza
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: Movie
The inspirational story of World Champion Boxer Vinny Pazienza, who after a near fatal car crash, which left him not knowing if he'd ever walk again, made one of sports most incredible comebacks.
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The Hope Rooms
Title: The Hope Rooms
Character: Eamonn
Released: August 4, 2016
Type: Movie
An estranged father, Eamonn, and his son, Sean, meet up after 15 years at a café in London to heal old wounds.
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Last Days in the Desert
Title: Last Days in the Desert
Character: Father
Released: May 13, 2016
Type: Movie
On his way out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis, setting himself up for a dramatic test.
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Title: National Theatre Live: Hamlet
Character: Claudius
Released: October 15, 2015
Type: Movie
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
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Hitman: Agent 47
Title: Hitman: Agent 47
Character: Litvenko
Released: August 20, 2015
Type: Movie
An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.
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Love is a Sting
Title: Love is a Sting
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Struggling children's book writer Harold Finch gains an unexpected house guest in the form of an ageing, hyper-intelligent mosquito named Anabel.
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The Driftless Area
Title: The Driftless Area
Character: Ned
Released: April 18, 2015
Type: Movie
Pierre Hunter, a bartender with unyielding optimism, returns to his tiny hometown after his parents' death. When he falls for the enigmatic Stella, Pierre is unknowingly pulled into a cat-and-mouse game that involves a duffel bag full of cash, a haphazard yet determined criminal, and a mystery that will determine all of their fates. A contemporary fable about the ways we struggle to control time and fate in a possibly predetermined universe.
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Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Title: Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Character: Mance Rayder
Released: January 29, 2015
Type: Movie
The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to defend Castle Black from the Wildings and features one the fiercest and most intense battle scenes ever filmed for television. The second episode (S4 EP10), features Dany coming to grips with the realities of ruling a kingdom, Bran learning the startling reality of his destiny and Tyrion facing the truth of his unfortunate situation.
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
Title: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
Character: Spencer Ludlow
Released: October 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Told from the man's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
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Title: Delirium
Released: June 20, 2014
Type: TV
Set in a world where love is deemed illegal and can be eradicated with a special procedure. With 95 days to go until her scheduled treatment, Lena Holoway does the unthinkable, she falls in love.
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Title: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Character: Spencer Ludlow
Released: May 14, 2014
Type: Movie
A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
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McCanick
Title: McCanick
Character: Quinn
Released: February 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Over the course of one feverish day, a harried narcotics detective and his reluctant partner frantically track down a recently released convict who knows a secret from the past.
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Frozen
Title: Frozen
Character: Pabbie / Grandpa (voice)
Released: November 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery man Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and snowman Olaf. On an adventure where she will find out what friendship, courage, family, and true love really means.
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Closed Circuit
Title: Closed Circuit
Character: Devlin
Released: August 28, 2013
Type: Movie
A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy.
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The Sea
Title: The Sea
Character: Max Morden
Released: June 23, 2013
Type: Movie
A man returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.
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Title: Shetland
Character: Michael Maguire
Released: March 10, 2013
Type: TV
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
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Title: Political Animals
Character: Bud Hammond
Released: July 15, 2012
Type: TV
Former first lady and current Secretary of State Elaine Barrish Hammond try to keep her family together while simultaneously dealing with crises of the State Department and fending off the hungry DC journalist who is bent on destroying her career.
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The Path to Vengeance: Making Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Title: The Path to Vengeance: Making Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Character: Self
Released: June 12, 2012
Type: Movie
A six-part documentary on the making of the film.
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John Carter
Title: John Carter
Character: Tardos Mors
Released: March 7, 2012
Type: Movie
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
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The Woman in Black
Title: The Woman in Black
Character: Mr. Daily
Released: February 3, 2012
Type: Movie
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Title: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Character: Roarke
Released: December 10, 2011
Type: Movie
When the devil resurfaces with aims to take over the world in human form, Johnny Blaze reluctantly comes out of hiding to transform into the flame-spewing supernatural hero Ghost Rider -- and rescue a 10-year-old boy from an unsavory end.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Title: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Character: Roy Bland
Released: September 16, 2011
Type: Movie
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
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Salvation Boulevard
Title: Salvation Boulevard
Character: Jim Hunt
Released: July 15, 2011
Type: Movie
Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will do anything to protect their larger-than-life pastor.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Character: Aberforth Dumbledore
Released: July 12, 2011
Type: Movie
Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.
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Title: Game of Thrones
Character: Mance Rayder
Released: April 17, 2011
Type: TV
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
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The Shore
Title: The Shore
Character: Joe
Released: February 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Two boyhood best friends are divided by 25 years of misunderstanding amidst the escalating conflict in Northern Ireland. The two boys’ lives take very different paths until Joe returns for the first time to his homeland with his 24-year-old daughter, Patricia. In his absence, Paddy married Joe’s former fiancée Mary. What happened all those years ago? Can old wounds be healed? The answer is hilarious and moving in equal parts.
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The Rite
Title: The Rite
Character: Father Xavier
Released: January 28, 2011
Type: Movie
Seminary student Michael Kovak reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.
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The Debt
Title: The Debt
Character: David Peretz
Released: September 30, 2010
Type: Movie
Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.
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Life During Wartime
Title: Life During Wartime
Character: Bill
Released: April 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solondz's film Happiness (1998).
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Glock
Title: Glock
Character: Luger
Released: December 31, 2009
Type: Movie
Short film about a new spy who is waiting on his first job. And waiting, and waiting....
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The Eclipse
Title: The Eclipse
Character: Michael Farr
Released: April 24, 2009
Type: Movie
Michael is a widower who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds himself drawn to Lena, an empathetic author of supernatural fiction. While Lena tries to help Michael with the mystery of his nightmarish visions, she must contend with problems of her own, as she’s being jealously pursued by self-obsessed novelist Nicholas, her one-time lover. As the festival progresses, the three adults’ lives converge and collide.
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Race to Witch Mountain
Title: Race to Witch Mountain
Character: Burke
Released: March 12, 2009
Type: Movie
A taxi driver gets more than he bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they're also trying desperately to escape people who have made them their targets.
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Title: Above Suspicion
Character: DCS James Langton
Released: January 4, 2009
Type: TV
Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds, and features the career of La Plante's latest heroine DC Anna Travis. The first series, Above Suspicion, was shown on the fourth and fifth of January 2009; the second series, Above Suspicion: The Red Dahlia, was shown on the fourth, fifth and sixth of January 2010. The third series, Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent, was shown on the third, fourth and fifth of January 2011. The fourth series, Above Suspicion – Silent Scream was shown on the ninth, sixteenth and twenty-third of January 2012; in a break from the previous broadcasts, which were broadcast on consecutive days, this latest tale was serialised weekly. ITV cancelled Above Suspicion on May 28, 2012.
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The Tale of Despereaux
Title: The Tale of Despereaux
Character: Botticelli (voice)
Released: December 18, 2008
Type: Movie
Once upon a time... in the far away kingdom of Dor... lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears who dreamt of becoming a knight. Banished from his home for having such lofty ambitions, Despereaux sets off on an amazing adventure with his good-hearted rat friend Roscuro, who leads him, at long last, on a very noble quest to rescue an endangered princess and save an entire kingdom from darkness.
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Ca$h
Title: Ca$h
Character: Barnes
Released: April 23, 2008
Type: Movie
A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined, just to survive.
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Stop-Loss
Title: Stop-Loss
Character: Roy King
Released: March 28, 2008
Type: Movie
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Title: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Character: Joe Blomfield
Released: March 7, 2008
Type: Movie
London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision, a continuous battle between love and fame.
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In Bruges
Title: In Bruges
Character: Priest (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.
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There Will Be Blood
Title: There Will Be Blood
Character: Fletcher Hamilton
Released: December 26, 2007
Type: Movie
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
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Margot at the Wedding
Title: Margot at the Wedding
Character: Dick Koosman
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: Movie
Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed musician/artist/depressive Malcolm at the family seaside home, Margot shows up unexpectedly to rekindle the sisterly bond and offer her own brand of support. What ensues is a nakedly honest and subversively funny look at family dynamics.
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Hallam Foe
Title: Hallam Foe
Character: Julius Foe
Released: February 16, 2007
Type: Movie
Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.
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The Nativity Story
Title: The Nativity Story
Character: Herod
Released: November 30, 2006
Type: Movie
Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visually lush adaptation of the biblical tale follows the pair on their arduous path to their arrival in a small village, where they find shelter in a quiet manger and Jesus is born.
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The Tiger's Tail
Title: The Tiger's Tail
Character: Father Andy
Released: September 26, 2006
Type: Movie
After a chance encounter, a Dubliner is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.
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Amazing Grace
Title: Amazing Grace
Character: Lord Tarleton
Released: September 16, 2006
Type: Movie
The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.
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Miami Vice
Title: Miami Vice
Character: FBI Agent John Fujima
Released: July 27, 2006
Type: Movie
A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.
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Munich
Title: Munich
Character: Carl
Released: December 23, 2005
Type: Movie
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
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Title: Rome
Character: Julius Caesar
Released: August 28, 2005
Type: TV
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
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Mickybo and Me
Title: Mickybo and Me
Character: Jonjo's Da
Released: March 25, 2005
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Character: Firmin
Released: December 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as The Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the crew.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Character: Michael Henchard
Released: December 28, 2003
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel. At a country fair, young hay-trusser Michael Henchard quarrels with his wife Susan, and in a drunken fit decides to auction off his wife and baby to a sailor for five guineas. The next day, realising his loss, he swears not to touch liquor again for as many years as he has lived so far. Eighteen years later, Henchard has become Mayor of Casterbridge, a man well respected but not well liked. The unexpected return of his wife and daughter Elizabeth Jane sets off a turn of events that force him to face the consequences of his selfish impulses and violent temper.
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The Statement
Title: The Statement
Character: Pochon
Released: December 12, 2003
Type: Movie
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans...
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Calendar Girls
Title: Calendar Girls
Character: Rod Harper
Released: September 2, 2003
Type: Movie
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
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Title: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Character: Michael Henchard
Released: August 17, 2003
Type: TV
At a country fair, young hay-trusser Michael Henchard quarrels with his wife Susan, and in a drunken fit decides to auction off his wife and baby to a sailor for five guineas. The next day, realising his loss, he swears not to touch liquor again for as many years as he has lived so far. Eighteen years later, Henchard has become Mayor of Casterbridge, a man well respected but not well liked. The unexpected return of his wife and daughter Elizabeth Jane sets off a turn of events that force him to face the consequences of his selfish impulses and violent temper.
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Title: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Character: Jonathan Reiss
Released: July 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Tasked by MI6 to find the mythological Pandora's Box, an ancient object supposedly containing one of the deadliest plagues on Earth, Lara Croft must beat evil Nobel Prize-winning scientist turned bioterrorist Jonathan Reiss to it.
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Veronica Guerin
Title: Veronica Guerin
Character: John Traynor
Released: July 11, 2003
Type: Movie
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
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Thursday the 12th
Title: Thursday the 12th
Character: Marius Bannister
Released: April 6, 2003
Type: Movie
In this two-part Rashomon-esque mini-series, a TV journalist investigates a rich politician and his family after a dead body is found on their property and they all have different story about the day of the incident.
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Road to Perdition
Title: Road to Perdition
Character: Finn McGovern
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: Movie
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.
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The Sum of All Fears
Title: The Sum of All Fears
Character: President Nemerov
Released: May 31, 2002
Type: Movie
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
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The Sleeper
Title: The Sleeper
Character: Fergus Moon
Released: December 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son and daughter-in-law who she discovers are considering selling the farm where she has known some of the happiest times of her life. Violet's control is not only threatened by their decision, but also by the sudden reappearance of someone from her past whom she meets at a local spiritualists club. Someone who has the potential to resurrect a long buried secret as well expose her current plot to put a stop to the sale of the farm. When Violet takes the opportunity to silence this person, she doesn't consider that enemies have friends...
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The Weight of Water
Title: The Weight of Water
Character: Louis Wagner
Released: September 25, 2000
Type: Movie
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.
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Title: Jason and the Argonauts
Character: King Aeson
Released: May 7, 2000
Type: TV
At a young age, Jason witnesses the brutal deposement and murder of his father at the hands of his uncle Pelias. Twenty years later, Jason returns home to claim his rightful place as king, but Pelias orders him to be executed, and in order to save himself Jason is forced to go on a dangerous quest to find the legendary Golden Fleece. So Jason gathers a motley crew of men and sets sail on the Argos.
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The Lost Lover
Title: The Lost Lover
Character: Adam
Released: October 5, 1999
Type: Movie
After their son dies, a Jewish family moves from London to Israel in an attempt to piece their lives back together. The mother finds a way out of her depression through a relationship with a younger man—which doesn't seem to bother her husband. Meanwhile, their daughter begins dating a Palestinian handyman.
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The Lost Son
Title: The Lost Son
Character: Carlos
Released: June 25, 1999
Type: Movie
Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their daughter's objections, and quickly he finds himself in the realm of children's sexual slavery.
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A Time to Love
Title: A Time to Love
Released: May 7, 1999
Type: Movie
Il Tempo Dell'Amore (A Time to Love) is an omnibus film of three different love stories that take place in three different eras and locations. The common element is the theme: love causes a lot of pain.
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Titanic Town
Title: Titanic Town
Character: Aidan McPhelimy
Released: August 8, 1998
Type: Movie
Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear she stands up and condemns the murders. Criticising both factions, her call for a ceasefire is interpreted as an attack against the IRA, and as her peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.
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Getting Hurt
Title: Getting Hurt
Character: Charlie Cross
Released: March 8, 1998
Type: Movie
The safe, secure, boring life of Charlie Cross, a wealthy, successful solicitor is irretrievably shattered when he embarks on an illicit, passionate affair with the beautiful, mysterious Viola whom he meets one evening whilst investigating the background of her husband, Edgar Bosco.
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Oscar and Lucinda
Title: Oscar and Lucinda
Character: Reverend Dennis Hasset
Released: December 31, 1997
Type: Movie
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
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The Life of Stuff
Title: The Life of Stuff
Character: David Arbogast
Released: October 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Brutal drama, with the occasional comic twist, about a wannabe gangster who buys a Glasgow warehouse which he plans to turn into the flagship of his criminal empire. Believing he has eliminated his arch-rival, he decides to hold the party of a lifetime to celebrate.
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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Character: Edward Rochester
Released: March 9, 1997
Type: Movie
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem to happen between the two leads in this version.
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Title: Ivanhoe
Character: Brian de Bois-Guilbert
Released: January 12, 1997
Type: TV
The epic tale of the idealistic young knight Ivanhoe and his battle against the evil Templar Bois-Guilbert. Caught between the rivalries and religious struggles are Ivanhoe's betrothed Rowena and the brave, beautiful Jewess healer Rebecca, who wins Ivanhoe's heart with her courage. This grand six-part adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's rousing adventure of the Middle Ages is set against the historical backdrop of a Britain straining under the corrupt rule of Prince John while Richard the Lionhearted fights in the Crusades.
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Title: Testament: The Bible in Animation
Character: Lucifer (voice)
Released: December 11, 1996
Type: TV
A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation techniques, including stop-motion, cel animation and computer animation.
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Some Mother's Son
Title: Some Mother's Son
Character: Danny Boyle
Released: September 13, 1996
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
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Title: Cold Lazarus
Character: Fyodor
Released: May 26, 1996
Type: TV
The year is 2368 and a group of scientists are on the brink of a major breakthrough as they begin to tap into the memory of a man who died in the 1990s.
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Mary Reilly
Title: Mary Reilly
Character: Sir Danvers Carew
Released: February 23, 1996
Type: Movie
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
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The Affair
Title: The Affair
Character: Edward Leyland
Released: October 14, 1995
Type: Movie
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.
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Persuasion
Title: Persuasion
Character: Captain Frederick Wentworth
Released: May 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne's father to rent out the family estate to Admiral Croft, and Anne is again thrown into company with Frederick -- who is now rich, successful, and perhaps still in love with Anne.
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Circle of Friends
Title: Circle of Friends
Character: Professor Flynn
Released: April 7, 1995
Type: Movie
Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. Can a self-conscious dreamer hook the biggest fish in the pond?
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A Dark Adapted Eye
Title: A Dark Adapted Eye
Released: January 2, 1994
Type: Movie
This psychological mystery/thriller, adapted from Barbara Vine aka Ruth Rendell's novel of the same name, depicts a family on the edge. Two sisters, the elder, obsessive Vera, and the younger, manipulative Eden, cut a path of secrecy and jealousy that leads to disaster.
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The Man Who Cried
Title: The Man Who Cried
Character: Abel Mason
Released: May 25, 1993
Type: Movie
Abel Mason is a man caught in a loveless marriage with a harridan wife who constantly berates him and beats their son Dick. When the one woman he loves dies at the hands of her husband after he was sent a letter by Mason's wife, exposing the affair, Abel leaves her for good taking to the road and young Dick with him.
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Hostages
Title: Hostages
Character: Brian Keenan
Released: September 23, 1992
Type: Movie
True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.
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Title: Between the Lines
Released: September 4, 1992
Type: TV
Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean.
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Title: Prime Suspect
Character: Edward Parker-Jones
Released: April 7, 1991
Type: TV
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
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Yellowbacks
Title: Yellowbacks
Character: Martin Pitt
Released: August 30, 1990
Type: Movie
Britain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged scientist are interrogated separately. The question they are both asked is 'Where is Martin Pitt?'
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December Bride
Title: December Bride
Character: Frank Echlin
Released: May 17, 1990
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father.
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Title: Who Bombed Birmingham?
Character: Richard McIlkenny
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
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Title: Perfect Scoundrels
Character: Jack Vosper
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: TV
Perfect Scoundrels first broadcast in 1990 on British television. A comedy-drama following two con-men doing their best to separate various people from their money
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Title: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Character: Cory
Released: October 13, 1989
Type: Movie
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Jack Lynch
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Character: Jim Browner
Released: April 24, 1984
Type: TV
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
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Excalibur
Title: Excalibur
Character: King Lot
Released: April 10, 1981
Type: Movie
A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail, and ultimately his death.
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Our Boys
Title: Our Boys
Character: Brother
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Mixing classroom dramatization with documentary material, interviews with former students who recall barbaric punishments in the name of learning, and a 1932 newsreel of a triumphant Catholic congress in Dublin, this piece poses a challenging and controversial exploration of the Christian Brothers' education system in the 50s.
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The Long March
Title: The Long March
Character: Michael Canning
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.
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Title: The Oscars
Character: Self
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: TV
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Title: The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Character: Old Dorrigo Evans
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Burma Railway in 1943 and across the Pacific during World War II, charts the cruelty of war, the tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love, as seen through the eyes of an Australian doctor and prisoner of war.
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Midwinter Break
Title: Midwinter Break
Character: Gerry
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Midwinter Break follows Stella and Gerry, a long-time married couple who reach a crossroads in their relationship when they take a trip to Amsterdam.
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Anna
Title: Anna
Character: Dmitry Muratov
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
World-renowned journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya went from being a local print journalist to braving the Chechen killing fields and exposing Russian state corruption under Vladimir Putin. She refused to give up reporting on the war in Chechnya despite numerous acts of intimidation and violence, including being poisoned. She was ultimately murdered in the elevator of her block of flats and it remains unclear who paid for the contract killing.